Dangos 15048 canlyniad

A copy, made about 1842, of a journal, in verse, of a tour or sojourn in South Wales, with a close association with Cilybebyll, together with a collection of poems, including translations from German, by the same anonymous author. The sub-sections of the journal have the following topographical titles: 'Graig Alltwen and the Mumbles', 'Cwm Clic', 'Llanguicke', 'Llyn-y-Fan', 'Coed-y-Brain and Carrig Marie', 'Gelli-Onnen', 'Carrig-Dinas and Cil-Hepste', and 'Plas Cil-y-bebyll'. At the beginning of the volume is a letter in the same hand as the text, signed 'M.E.D.B.' and written from Sevenoaks, 31 August 1838, to James -----, referring to the 'journal' and giving an account of Knole Abbey.

A collection of 'carolau', 'cerddi', 'englynion', and other verse in various metres. The poets include John Rhees, 1776-8, Hugh Jones 'o Faes y glase' (1749-1825), Robert Evan 'o Feifod' (fl. c. 1750), Edward Morus 'o'r Plas yn y Pentre', 1785, Ellis Rowland (c. 1650-c. 1730), George Humphreys (senior) (1747?-1813), 1803-7, George Humphreys (junior), Ellis Roberts (d. 1789), Jonathan Hughes (1721-1805), Evan Williams, Rhys Lloyd, Harri 'o Graig y Gath' [Harri Parri (1709?-1800)], Hugh Morris (1622-1709), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas), Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) (1739-1810) and John Cain alias 'Ceiriog' (c. 1575-c. 1650). Also included is a shoemaker's accounts and a charm against tooothache.

Miscellaneous autograph letters from Sir William Jones, orientalist (1746-1794) to J. Miller and Samuel Parr (1747-1825), from Samuel Parr to William Roscoe (1753-1831) and from Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) to Richard Gough (1735-1809).

A volume described as Post Office Vol. VIII and containing drafts and fair copies of letters and statements from the General Post Office to the Lords of the Treasury, March and April 1790, concerning the postage of letters and methods of checking them, accounts of twopenny letters from April 1789 to June 1790, dead letters, statements of the conveyance of mails in coaches, correspondence relating to the Leeward Islands Mails, statistics and correspondence relating to the Packet Boats, West India Packet Postage in 1789, and the Dover Packets, and weekly returns of the Packet Boats on the Falmouth Station, March-July 1789; copies of letters from John Drummond to Thomas, 2nd baron Walsingham (1748-1818), in 1789, relating to French schemes in the West Indies and elsewhere, to the manufacture of saltpetre, and to papers belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), some of which refer to the alleged discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd (fl. 1170); letters from Joseph Cawthorne to Lord Walsingham referring to the Asiatic monopoly of the East India Company; printed copies of Acts of Parliament, 17-18 cents.

A journal of tours to Tenby, Aberystwyth, etc. from 9 August to 3 September 1831, to the English Lakes from 1 to 29 August 1833, and to Matlock and Bakewell from 24 to 29 August 1835, with notes on a later tour, 1840, and some sketches.

A miscellany compiled partly in his eighty-fifth year (1760) by John Davies or David of Pentre Vidoc (or Foelas) and containing eleven psalms in 'cywydd' metre by Sion Tudur, 'cywyddau' by Humphrey Thomas ('Bardd yr Ennig') and others unnamed, an 'awdl gyffes' by Sion Phylip, 'englynion' by Edward Morys, Richard Jones, and Owen Gruffydd, 'tribanau', a transcript of a Welsh historical chart (beginning with a synopsis of the 'Promptuarium Biblia' and continued to the reign of Richard III) compiled by John Gruffudd Eyton (1513), anecdotes, and holograph 'englynion' addressed to John Davies by T. E. Nant. (i.e., Thomas Edwards, 'Twm or Nant').

The second part of a photostat facsimile, bound for convenience in two volumes (see also NLW MS 6495C), of Christ Church (Oxford) MS 184, a manuscript written in various hands of the 16th and 17th centuries. The original portion was written by Wiliam Cynwal (d. 1587/8), herald bard, who also inserted a note explaining how the manuscript came to be written. The major part of the volumes, written in Welsh, consist of cywyddau, awdlau and englynion, many of them in the autograph of the authors, and most of them written to various members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni and to Katherine of Berain (1534/5-1591). The English portion of the manuscripts includes autograph poems by Sir John Salusbury (1567-1612) and Robert Chester (fl. c. 1586-1604), and others. Also included in the manuscripts are the coats of arms of Katherine of Berain, resulting from her four marriages; a few Latin items, including elegies and epitaphs to Katherine of Berain; a rough index to the contents of the volumes compiled by John Jones (Tegid) (1792-1852), Christ Church (Oxford), in the 19th century.

The first part of a photostat facsimile, bound for convenience in two volumes (see also NLW MS 6496C), of Christ Church (Oxford) MS 184, a manuscript written in various hands of the 16th and 17th centuries. The original portion was written by William Cynwal (d. 1587/8), herald bard, who also inserted a note explaining how the manuscript came to be written. The major part of the volumes, written in Welsh, consists of cywyddau, awdlau and englynion, many of them in the autograph of the authors, and most of them written to various members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni and to Katherine of Berain (1534/5-1591). The English portion of the manuscripts includes autograph poems by Sir John Salusbury (1567-1612) and Robert Chester (fl. c. 1586-1604), and others. Also included in the manuscripts are the coats of arms of Katherine of Berain, resulting from her four marriages; a few Latin items, including elegies and epitaphs to Katherine of Berain; a rough index to the contents of the volumes compiled by John Jones (Tegid) (1792-1852), Christ Church, Oxford, in the 19th century.

Copies of letters and extracts from letters, 1801-1831, on botanical and geological matters sent by Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855), naturalist, Penlle'rgaer, Swansea to Dawson Turner (1775-1858), botanist and antiquary, William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857), geologist and dean of Llandaff, William Kirby (1759-1850), entomologist, William Borrer (1781-1862), botanist, John Fleming (1785-1857), naturalist, etc.

Miscellaneous extracts in verse and prose, including transcripts of letters, relating mainly to the Quakers. They include Remarkable Occurrences of John Crook [1616/7-1699], author of An Apology for the Quakers, 1662; Some Account of George Fox's [1624-1691] Funeral by Robert Barrow, 1691; letters from Samuel Fothergill (1715-1772), 1761, 1773, etc.; an epistle from the monthly meeting of Friends held at Merion in the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania to Friends in Wales, 11 March 1699; a copy of a letter from William Penn (1644-1718) to Margaret Fox (1614-1702), 1677; etc.

Typewritten copies of a letter, 25 September 1897, from Abby Johnson Woodman, Oak Knoll, Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.A., to Frederick J. Gibbins, Neath, Glamorgan, relating to the connection between John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, and John ap John (1625?-1697), Ruabon, founder of the Society of Friends in Wales and promoter of emigration from Wales to Pennsylvania; typewritten copy of a letter from Whittier, 29 January 1879, to another Friend.

Material relating to Hugh Hughes (1790-1863), artist, including letters, 1886-1894, to Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) (1839-1915) from J. Deffett Francis (1815-1901), Swansea, Rees Jenkin Jones (1835-1924), Aberdare, J. Pearson, London, and William Williams (Ap Caledfryn) (1837-1915), together with a copy of Yr Ymofynydd for March 1890 containing an article on Hugh Hughes by Rees Jenkin Jones.

Autograph letters, 1890-1891, to Alfred Nutt (1856-1910) from Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910) and Kuno Meyer (1858-1919), with an English version by Meyer of the verses of Gilla in Chomdad's (Irish) poems relating to Finn.

Autograph letters or autographs, 1684-1826, of William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph, and John Moore, bishop of Norwich (aft. Ely), and of the following who held bishoprics in Wales: Shute Barrington (Llandaff), Thomas Burgess (St. Davids), Edward Copleston (Llandaff), John Egerton (Bangor), John Ewer (Llandaff), Samuel Horsley (St. Davids, aft. St. Asaph), John Randolph (Bangor), Thomas Sherlock (Bangor), Thomas Tanner (St. Asaph), John Tyler (Llandaff), Richard Watson (Llandaff), and Lawrence Womack (St. Davids).

Poetry by Jabez Edmund Jenkins (Creidiol) (1840-1903), rector of Vaynor, Brecknockshire; extracts from a son entitled Ffynon Llysiog by Jenkin Williams, Taf-fechan, 1840; an elegiac englyn on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) (1787-1848) by Owen Williams (Waenfawr); a letter from David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morganwg) (1832-1905) to Jabez Edmund Jenkins.

Two letters, one written 1848, the other undated but written before 1848, from Nathaniel Jones (b. 1772) to his nephew Thomas Jones, Llandderfel, father of Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, Llandderfel (d. 1906) and grandfather of R. N. Jones (donor of NLW MSS 6191 and 6192), with copies of hymns.

An extra-illustrated copy of Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844. Edited ... by A. Hayward ... (London, 1864). The insertions include a letter from Richard Griffin Neville, Lord Braybrooke (1783-1858) to [Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854)], 18 February 1852, relating to the impending dissolution of the Percy Society.

A photostat facsimile of a letter written c. 1506 [but see note at 678 below] by Gruffydd Dwnn (c. 1500-c. 1570) (also Don or Donne), Kidwelly to his brother Sir Edward Don[ne], with a press cutting and correspondence relating to the letter and its writer.

Correspondence, 1919, between Messrs Hodder & Stoughton, publishers, London and Ellis Lloyd, Bridgend, Glamorgan, also correspondence, 1933, between Ellis Lloyd and Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas (1863-1940), together with an appreciation by the publishers' reader [?Sir William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923)] of Messrs Hodder & Stoughton of poetry by Hugh Menai Williams (Huw Menai) (1888-1961), afterwards published under the title Through the Upcast Shaft.